Comments on: Install Jolicloud alpha2 as a VirtualBox virtual machine in 6 easy steps

By: CMC

CMC — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:56:56 +0000

Hello,

I’m not sure where to get the .img file, where is it?

By: rici

rici — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:29:05 +0000

Hey i don’t know about you guys but i got Jolicloud working like a charm on my VMWare. No i didn’t need to do any configurations or changes. Here’s a peek

http://i26.tinypic.com/906bli.jpg

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:54:43 +0000

I also got “No bootable medium found! System halted.” Followed the instructions exactly. Any ideas?

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:52:17 +0000

For those of you having trouble, select the first VDI file you created (600MB) as the hard drive in the “create new VM option” in VirtualBox. After you click finish, go to settings and attach another IDe thingy in the storage tab. This one is the 16KB/4GB file you created in the second terminal command. I’ll have a video up soon on my youtube page.

By: Stu M

Stu M — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:19:28 +0000

1. Run the command to create a bootable VDI image (without quotes): “VBoxManage convertfromraw jolicloud-robby-alpha2-live.img jolicloud-robby-alpha2-live.vdi”
2. Run the command to create a new empty VDI image where to install the image with 4GB space: “VBoxManage createhd -filename jolicloud-robby.vdi -size 4000″
Note: you can use -register option at the end of this command or register this VDI file from the VirtualBox later.
3. Create a new VM using the jolicloud-robby-alpha2-live.vdi (use the existing vdi option)
4. Attach the jolicloud-robby.vdi as a Primary Slave
5. Start the VM (boot)
6. Install

Everything except step two worked for me, it created the file but it’s only 20KB! How I can fix that??

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:20:50 +0000

hey can some one make a video tutorial on how to do this it would help a lot of people (like me) who have no idea what they are doing

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Jolicloud and Netbooks | Oracle — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:04:10 +0000

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By: vincent

vincent — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:05:54 +0000

@chrisnofneur : no idea, have you followed and understood every steps?

@wapie : it deserves the real test. It’s NOT another Ubuntu crappy release. It’s really well thought and works amazingly well… From my experience, Live CD (on a VM layer moreover) test is not a good test… except for Knoppix Live CD who is a real damn good toolbox everyone should carry around.

@dotmastaz thank you

@andresus fisrt navigate to the folder were the file is, then lauch the command. make sure the file is really in the folder you are (type ls)

@james : did you consider VMWare could not be the good virtualizing software… at all? It appears that Parallel is REALLY much faster than VMWare. I have to say I’m amazed by VirtualBox and the fact it’s open and free. I’m gonna stick to it now.

By: James

James — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:04:06 +0000

Hi. This has been great but does anyone know how to do this for vmware fusion on the mac. I have virtualbox but I prefer vmware. Any help much appreciated.

By: andresus

andresus — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:53:17 +0000

Great BUT!, when I put the command “VBoxManage convertfromraw jolicloud-robby-alpha2-live.img jolicloud-robby-alpha2-live.vdi” on my Terminal, it says that “file not found”, where am I suppose to copy the “jolicloud-robby-alpha2-live” on to so it can be recognized?